WJ Wei Jiang

About Me

I am a researcher in the Multimedia Standards Team at ByteDance's Multimedia Laboratory, where I work on learning-based image and video compression systems and their standardization.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Peking University in 2026, advised by Prof. Ronggang Wang, and my B.Eng. from Chongqing University in 2021.

01

Career

  • ByteDance

    Researcher · Multimedia Standards

    Jul 2026 – Present

  • ByteDance

    Research Intern · Multimedia Standards

    Feb 2023 – Jul 2026

  • SenseTime

    Research Intern · ISP & Codec Group

    Jan 2022 – Sep 2022

02

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science

    Peking University

    Advisor: Prof. Ronggang Wang

    Sep 2021 – Jun 2026

  • B.Eng. in Vehicle Engineering

    Chongqing University

    Sep 2017 – Jun 2021

03

Publications

Neural Video Compression

  1. 2026

    BiCRVC: An Efficient Bidirectional Neural Video Compression Framework via Coupled Representation Coding

    Wei Jiang, Junru Li, Kai Zhang, and Li Zhang

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.16175, 2026 Preprint

    Codes motion and frame latents through one coupled codec, with multi-candidate motion estimation and bidirectional motion feature propagation; about 30× faster 1080p decoding than recent bidirectional codecs.

  2. 2025

    BiECVC: Gated Diversification of Bidirectional Contexts for Learned Video Compression

    Wei Jiang, Junru Li, Kai Zhang, and Li Zhang

    Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 7248–7257, 2025 CCF-A

    First end-to-end video codec to outperform VTM 13.2 RA across all test sets; 13.4% bitrate saving at intra period 32.

  3. 2025

    ECVC: Exploiting Non-Local Correlations in Multiple Frames for Contextual Video Compression

    Wei Jiang, Junru Li, Kai Zhang, and Li Zhang

    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 7331–7341, 2025 CCF-A

    Linear-attention motion estimation that models redundancy without explicit optical flow; 32.1% bitrate saving over VTM 13.2 LDB.

  4. 2024

    LVC-LGMC: Joint Local and Global Motion Compensation for Learned Video Compression

    Wei Jiang, Junru Li, Kai Zhang, and Li Zhang

    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2955–2959, 2024 Oral

    Combines local and global motion compensation for low-delay learned video compression.

Neural Image Compression

  1. 2026

    MLICv2: Enhanced Multi-Reference Entropy Modeling for Learned Image Compression

    Wei Jiang, Yongqi Zhai, Jiayu Yang, Feng Gao, and Ronggang Wang

    ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), 22(4), 1–23, 2026 CCF-B

    Enhanced transforms, context re-weighting, entropy-coding skip and online encoder optimization; 16.5–20.5% bitrate saving over VTM 17.0 Intra on Kodak.

  2. 2026

    SSCL: Adversarially Guided Image Compression via Semantic and Spectral Consistency Learning

    Wei Jiang, Yongqi Zhai, Jiayu Yang, Bohao Feng, Wenqiang Wang, Bo Huang, Lin Ding, Feng Gao, and Ronggang Wang

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 40(17), 14937–14945, 2026 CCF-AOral

    Perceptual image compression guided by spectral and semantic consistency; 35.9% bitrate saving over the previous best perception-oriented method.

  3. 2025

    PORT: Perception-Oriented Image Compression with Real-Time Decoding

    Wei Jiang, Bohao Feng, Wenqiang Wang, Lin Ding, and Ronggang Wang

    Proceedings of the 7th Challenge on Learned Image Compression (CLIC), 2025

    Perception-oriented image codec designed for practical decoding speed.

  4. 2025

    MLIC++: Linear Complexity Multi-Reference Entropy Modeling for Learned Image Compression

    Wei Jiang, Jiayu Yang, Yongqi Zhai, Feng Gao, and Ronggang Wang

    ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), 21(5), 1–25, 2025 CCF-B

    Linear-complexity global context modelling that replaces full attention at a fraction of the memory cost; 13.4% bitrate saving over VTM 17.0 Intra.

  5. 2024

    LLIC: Large Receptive Field Transform Coding with Adaptive Weights for Learned Image Compression

    Wei Jiang, Peirong Ning, Jiayu Yang, Yongqi Zhai, Feng Gao, and Ronggang Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 26, 10937–10951, 2024 CCF-A

    Dynamic large-kernel transforms that widen the receptive field of the analysis and synthesis networks; 10.9% bitrate saving over VTM 17.0 Intra.

  6. 2023

    MLIC: Multi-Reference Entropy Model for Learned Image Compression

    Wei Jiang, Jiayu Yang, Yongqi Zhai, Peirong Ning, Feng Gao, and Ronggang Wang

    Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 7618–7627, 2023 CCF-A

    Multi-reference entropy model with attention-based local and global context; 11.4% bitrate saving over VTM 17.0 Intra.

Image Quality Assessment

  1. 2022

    Image Quality Assessment with Transformers and Multi-Metric Fusion Modules

    Wei Jiang, Litian Li, Yi Ma, Yongqi Zhai, Zheng Yang, and Ronggang Wang

    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 1804–1808, 2022

    A learned metric combining ConvNeXt features, transformer-based distortion comparison and multi-metric fusion; 0.780 accuracy on the CLIC validation set.

04

Awards

  • Runner-up, CLIC 2024 Image Track

    Challenge on Learned Image Compression @ DCC 2024

    2024

  • Third place, Practical End-to-End Image/Video Compression Challenge

    Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) 2023

    2023

  • Runner-up, CLIC 2022 Image Track

    Challenge on Learned Image Compression @ CVPR 2022

    2022

05

Service

Conference Reviewer
  • Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025, 2026
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025, 2026, 2027
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2026, 2027
  • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2024, 2025
  • ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Dataset Track (ACM MM) 2025
  • Data Compression Conference (DCC) 2024
Journal Reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
  • IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting (TB)
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM)
  • Pattern Recognition (PR)
Organization
  • Grand Challenge on Neural Network-based Video Coding, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2024, 2025